Unconscious activation of visual cortex in the damaged right hemisphere of a parietal patient with extinction

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1624-1633

  Rees, Geraint ^a,b   Wojciulik, Ewa ^c   Clarke, Karen ^c   Husain, Masud ^d   Frith, Chris ^b   Driver, Jon ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Extinction; fMRI; Neglect; Parietal lobe

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033910148     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.8.1624     Document Type: Article

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